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once more, and up to the present time have obtained the following 

 hybrids : 



Alipore Beauty {Cooperia Oherwetti $ x Zephyranthes 

 rohusta — In fohage like Zepliyranthes rohusta, J inch wide, 

 with a 'faint suspicion of bloom on the foliage; flower-stalk 

 12 inches long, base brownish-green ; • flower the size of 

 Z, rohusta, soft lilac-rose overlaid with white from base upwards; 

 back of petals deeper pink ; long petals ; pistil suppressed ; flower 

 upright like Cooperia; perianth tube 3 inches long. 



Percy {Zephyranthes citrina $ x Cooperia Drummondi 

 — Foliage like Cooperia, | inch wide, with a faint tinge of bloom; 

 flower-stalk 8 inches, base pale red; perianth tube short, pale 

 green; ovary green; pistil suppressed; colour of flower pale cream, 

 centre slightly deeper; flower nodding like Zephyranthes. 



Mary (Cooperia Drummondi 5 x Zephyranthes rohusta 

 — In foliage like Cooperia Drummondi, covered with a heavy bloom, 

 •J inch wide; flower-stalk 8 inches high, base brownish-green; the 

 , flower is the size of Cooperia Drummondi, only a delicate flesh- 

 pink; perianth tube 2| inches long; pistil suppressed ; flower 

 upright like Cooperia. 



Sydney {Cooperia Drummondi ? x Zephyranthes citriyia 

 — In foliage like Cooperia Drummondi, covered with a heavy 

 bloom, ^ inch wide; flower- stalk 8 inches, green, base reddish; 

 flower like C. Drummondi, pale sulphur in colour, fading to a 

 creamy-white in the sun, but keeping open for a second day; 

 flower upright like Cooperia] perianth tube 3^ inches long. 



In the Cooperanthes hybrids (Cooperia $ x Zephyranthes the 

 former is dominant over the latter in foliage and shape of flower, 

 but the colour in every case is modified. In Zephyranthes ? X 

 Cooperia <?, the former is dominant in colour and shape of flower. 



I have noted below the chief distinctions between Cooperia and 

 Zephyranthes. 



Cooperia Drummondi has primrose-scented flowers, perfectly 

 upright in growth, white in colour, which open in the afternoon; the 

 foliage is J inch to \ inch wide, covered with a whitish bloom. The 

 anthers are pressed close round the style below the stigma, which is 

 large. The perianth tube is 3 inches long. In C. Oherwetti the fohage 

 is narrower than C. Drummondi, and has less bloom. 



Zephyranthes has the funnel-shaped flowers and flower-tube short, 

 and nodding stamens affixed to the throat of the. flower. The stigma is 

 distinctly three-branched. The flowers of Zephyranthes are of various 

 colours, and the foliage of different widths from -h inch to J inch. 



I have still a few hundreds of hybrid, progeny, which will in all 

 probability flower in June 1912, and I expect a good many more 

 Cooperanthes, 



